Practice Minimum Cost to Make All Characters Equal
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Problem Statement
For binary s, you may flip every bit in a prefix ending at i for cost i + 1, or every bit in a suffix starting at i for cost s.length - i. Return the minimum total cost to make the full string all zeros or all ones.
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Examples
# Example 1
Input
s = "0011"
Output
2
# Example 2
Input
s = "010101"
Output
9
Constraints
1 <= s.length == n <= 10^5
s[i] is either '0' or '1'
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